YouTube Made 30 Changes to Lower ‘Borderline’ Video Views by 70%

YouTube defines itself as an “open video platform,” where videos that don’t break the rules are free to flourish. But a new blog from the company contradicts its own statement. “The Fours Rs of Responsibility, Part 2” detailed the 30 changes YouTube made to its algorithms in the last year in order to promote what it labelled “authoritative news” and to demote “borderline content.”
Corinne Weaver
December 4th, 2019 2:36 PM

Hollywood Loves Gossip Girl Justin Trudeau, Trump’s the ‘Embarrassment

World leader and queen of the mean girls, Justin Trudeau has got lefty tongues wagging over video of his alleged gossip about President Donald J. Trump during this week’s NATO summit. And even though Trudeau is an effete, blackface-wearing hypocrite, celebrity twitter heralded his behind-the-back antics as some heroic Trump takedown. Of course this is the pettiest news of the year, but then again…
Gabriel Hays
December 4th, 2019 2:31 PM

CBS Not Sure If Kamala Harris Is a Liberal or Not (Spoiler: She Is)

If you ask CBS, there sure are a lot of moderate Democrats running for president. During the early stages of the 2020 race, CBS This Morning political correspondent Ed O’Keefe has labeled numerous liberal candidates as “moderates” or “centrists.” He’s not even totally sure if Kamala Harris, the Democratic Senator from California who just dropped out, is a liberal. 
Scott Whitlock
December 4th, 2019 12:41 PM

Nets Excited by ‘Damning’ Dem Report, ‘One Step Closer' to Impeachment

On Wednesday, all three network morning shows were completely enthralled with Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee releasing a partisan report calling for the impeachment of President Trump. Despite the obvious one-sided nature of the 300-page document, anchors on NBC, ABC, and CBS led their respective broadcasts by touting the report as “damning,” “blistering,” and representing “…
Kyle Drennen
December 4th, 2019 12:17 PM

Steyer Gave $23,987,925 to Liberals, Dwarfs Top 15 Conservative Donors

The liberal media-dubbed “patrician populist” Tom Steyer, who once decried “‘the corporate stranglehold on democracy,’” has continued to spend millions on liberal causes this election cycle. Steyer is the top federal contributor to outside groups, according to data from Open Secrets. In total, he contributed $23,987,925 to liberal causes in the 2020 election cycle, now having outspent 15 of the…
Joseph Vazquez
December 4th, 2019 11:35 AM

ABC Warns, Don’t Pay Attention to Republican ‘Theatrics’ This Hearing

Minutes before Wednesday’s House Judiciary Committee impeachment inquiry hearing began, ABC journalists were already spinning what Republicans would say as nonsense. ABC’s Senior Congressional Correspondent Mary Bruce and Senior White House Correspondent Cecilia Vega dismissed Republicans as stooges for President Trump who would stop at nothing to disrupt the hearing with their “theatrics."
Kristine Marsh
December 4th, 2019 11:31 AM

NY Times Plans to Film 2020 Endorsement Interviews for Its FX TV Show

During the past several years, the New York Times has been expanding its reach into cable television programming in an effort to remain relevant to TV viewers across the country. The latest aspect of that strategy was announced on Monday, when representatives of the liberal newspaper stated they were changing from their usually hidden endorsement process for Democratic candidates in that party’s…
Randy Hall
December 4th, 2019 8:16 AM

Tech CEOs Support Paris Climate Agreement, Opposing US Government

Big Tech CEOs for Apple, Google, Microsoft, and other companies signed an agreement with a labor union leader stating that they would uphold the standards set by the Paris Agreement. The United States government, under President Trump, pulled out of the Paris Agreement in 2017, the only country to do so. The statement signed by 78 CEOs said, “[M]any of us came together to rally behind the US’…
Corinne Weaver
December 4th, 2019 7:11 AM

PBS's Amanpour Hypes Theory Netanyahu 'Incited' Yitzhak Rabin's Murder

On Monday's Amanpour & Co. show on PBS (also shown on CNN International), host Christiane Amanpour devoted a segment to interviewing the director of a film, titled Incitement, that has come under criticism for suggesting right-leaning Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu helped stoke up "incitement" that led to the 1995 assassination of left-leaning Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin by a…
Brad Wilmouth
December 3rd, 2019 11:54 PM

CBS, NBC Mourn for Kamala’s Failed Campaign, Skip Disgruntled Staff

The Democratic field for the 2020 nomination continued to shrink on Tuesday after self-declared top-tier candidate Senator Kamala Harris (CA) dropped out due to a lack of funds. In response, CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News ran reports mourning the loss of her campaign, with one noting that the upcoming Democratic debate would only consist of white people now. But surprisingly, an ABC report…
Nicholas Fondacaro
December 3rd, 2019 11:34 PM

IRONY ALERT! On MSNBC, Rhodes Decries Trump’s ‘Corrupt’ Foreign Policy

That’s right, folks. On Tuesday’s Hardball, MSNBC contributor and former Obama administration lackey Ben Rhodes bemoaned President Trump’s foreign policy as “fundamentally corrupting,” “not how our government is supposed to work,” and “a criminal enterprise...that...was not in the U.S. national interest” that’s unrivaled in our history.
Curtis Houck
December 3rd, 2019 11:14 PM

Bozell & Graham Column: Censoring Social Media for 'Promoting Crime'

The other day, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki subjected herself to a hard-hitting interview with Lesley Stahl on CBS's 60 Minutes. Stahl lectured her for allowing “harmful” or “hurtful” speech to be posted on her platform, without any fact-checking. Welcome to the latest demonstration of the traditional “news” media mercilessly pounding away at social media for having the audacity to allow dissenting…
Brent Bozell and Tim Graham
December 3rd, 2019 11:04 PM

Nets Grant 10x the Airtime to Dem Impeachment Report Over GOP’s

Despite the fact that House Republicans on the Intelligence Committee released their impeachment findings a full day ahead of Democrats, the liberal broadcast networks granted their team 10 times the coverage in just one evening. ABC’s World News Tonight, CBS Evening News, and NBC Nightly News granted the GOP report a measly 54 seconds of combined airtime. NBC actually ignored the GOP report…
Nicholas Fondacaro
December 3rd, 2019 8:56 PM

NYT Checks Boris on UK Terror: 'Lock-’Em-Up Sloganeering...Undermined'

Showing that its Boris Johnson-bashing tradition will be upheld through the British elections December 12 (in which he is currently favored to prevail), Tuesday’s New York Times found a way to use the latest London Bridge terror attack to put Conservative Party Prime Minister Boris Johnson on the defensive in “For Johnson, a Week of Courting Allies and Hosting Sometimes Rivals.” Reporters Mark…
Clay Waters
December 3rd, 2019 8:31 PM